Hi,
I think that the Gary solution is the best. For the footer
perhaps you can
make a 100% width footer with a color background which hide
the body
background and then insert your closing image into the footer
div.

"Nicola Rubeo" <nicola_nospammers_@computertime-az.it>
escribió en el
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> Hi Gary,
> already give it a try, this may solve part of the
problem (actual layout
> include a footer with a closing image, this is not
compatible with a short
> page because body background would continue after
footer), but at this
> point I have to rethink the layout from scratch, it's
the best thing to
> do.
>
> Thank you very much for your advice
> Nicola
>
> "Gary White" <reply@newsgroup.please> ha scritto
nel messaggio
> news:hfb2p3pp4q93tq7lkcjdct4l8nfjkgjhcp@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:32:27 +0100, "Nicola Rubeo"
>> <nicola_nospammers_@computertime-az.it> wrote:
>>
>>>I undesrtand you perfectly
>>>
>>>don't understand why this option is not present
>>>consider that I have to rethink a layout from
scratch :-(
>>
>> While you cannot do what you asked, by starting a
tiling background at
>> some arbitrary point, you *can* cover a portion of
the background with
>> some other opaque content. Consider something like
this:
>>
>> <style type="text/css">
>> body {
>> background: #fff url(bg.gif) center repeat-y;
>> }
>> #header {
>> background: #fff;
>> height: 250px;
>> }
>> </style>
>>
>> Then, in the html:
>>
>> <body>
>> <div id="header">Some content</header>
>>
>> Gary
>
>